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Just a place to keep bookmarks and interesting stuff

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Give a man food, and he can eat for a day. Give a man a job, and he can only eat for 30 minutes on break.

- Lev L. Spiro

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Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road Only wakes upon the sea.

– Antonio Machado, Border of a Dream: Selected Poems

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For most Asian Americans, diversity is a core value – even if a loud minority contests it

Edward Blum’s group used Asian Americans for display to serve a longstanding anti-affirmative action agenda

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No matter what tools you use to create, the true instrument is you. And through you, the universe that surrounds us all comes into focus. -Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

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The Light That Bridges the Dark Expanse Between Lonelinesses: James Baldwin on How Long-Distance Love Illuminates the Power of All Love

“As long as space and time divide you from anyone you love… love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.”

“Pretend, for example, that you were born in Chicago and have never had the remotest desire to visit Hong Kong, which is only a name on a map for you; pretend that some convulsion, sometimes called accident, throws you into connection with a man or a woman who lives in Hong Kong; and that you fall in love. Hong Kong will immediately cease to be a name and become the center of your life. And you may never know how many people live in Hong Kong. But you will know that one man or one woman lives there without whom you cannot live. And this is how our lives are changed, and this is how we are redeemed.What a journey this life is! Dependent, entirely, on things unseen. If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earth quake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.” ~James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket 

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While we might feel small, separate, and all alone, our people have never been more closely tethered. Because the question isn’t if we can weather this unknown, but how we will weather this unknown together.

Amanda Gorman, from “The Miracle of Morning” 

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They acquire the habit of always considering themselves as standing alone, and they are apt to imagine that their whole destiny is in their own hands,” he wrote. “Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it ... throws him back forever upon himself alone, and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart.

Alexis de Tocqueville, “Democracy in America”

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This month, the U.S. surgeon general declared loneliness an epidemic, saying that it takes as deadly a toll as smoking. Does the focus on American individualism encourage isolation and alienation? Perhaps that is, like other chunks of the American story, a premise built on myths.

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Jacob Collier talks about creativity performing, for introverts: just be yourself, but in a different direction - jc

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"Do things on your own terms, do things in your own time, do things for yourselves, and give everything away."

Jacob Collier

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What to Know About the Five Stages of Grief

If you are grieving the loss of a loved one, you may be going through one of the five stages of grief. Learn how to cope and how to offer your support to others.

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What's normal anxiety -- and what's an anxiety disorder?

Everyone gets anxious at times, but how can you tell when worrying and fear crosses the line and needs attention? Dr. Jen Gunter introduces a special part of the brain called the amygdala and shares the science behind your brain's threat-detection system, what causes it to malfunction and the most effective ways of treating an anxiety disorder. Want to hear more from Dr. Gunter? Check out her podcast Body Stuff, from the TED Audio Collective.

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Spiders appear to offload cognitive tasks to their webs, making them one of a number of species with a mind that isn’t fully confined within the head.

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“It’s bad that the boat is stuck. It’s bad for lots of people and for lots of reasons. I know that. Please don’t think that me liking the stuck boat is an ideological stance. This is not an opinion I have about boats, or about canals, or about things generally being stuck. But I can’t deny it: I like that the boat is stuck. I like that, so far, we all seem to agree that the boat is stuck. There’s no debate over whether or not the big boat is stuck: it is a big boat, and it is stuck, and we are all aware of those facts, even those of us who are currently located in outer space. Furthermore, most of us share the opinion that it’s disagreeable, logistically, for the boat to be stuck. The boat being stuck is inconvenient. It’s a big disruption! Nobody can say it isn’t a big disruption. None of my distant relatives will get into arguments on The Face Website about whether or not the stuck boat is making a nuisance for lots of people. I like that.”

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“I Like That The Boat Is Stuck” by Sarah Gailey

I highly recommend that you read this short essay about the stuck boat and why we like hearing in the news that it is stuck. It’s funny and entirely accurate.

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The water in your body is just visiting. It was a thunderstorm a week ago. It will be the ocean soon enough. Most of your cells come and go like morning dew. We are more weather pattern than stone monument. Sunlight on mist. Summer lightening. Your choices outweigh your substance.

@cryptonature The CryptoNaturalist

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The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another…and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.”

Leonard Bernstein